Elie Wiesel has many reasons for writing his memoir Night. One of the reasons is to leave behind a legacy of words and memories so he can help prevent things like the Holocaust from happening again. He wants to educate the world so they can try to do things to prevent history from repeating itself. Another reason is because he wants to preserve a record of the ordeal he endured as a fifteen year old. He wants to tell people about what he experienced first hand and what is was like for him to do it at such a young age. He knows that he must bear a witness to what he saw because there are not many people left who can and in very little time there will be nobody who can tell these stories because they will have all passed away. He tells stories about how he watched the Nazis kill his father and how he did not obey his father’s last wish that was for his to be at his side. It was very hard for him to make the abridged version because he did not want to cut out any or the story because he thought it is all equally important. One thing he believes is that there is a response in responsibility. In conclusion there are many reasons for why Elie Wiesel wrote the novel Night and most of them include telling people about what happened and trying to prevent it from happening again.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensurethat their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
He went to Heidelberg University and received a doctorate of philosophy in 1920. He served in the first world war. He was given the task of building up the support for the Nazis in Berlin.
-Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce
-Nazis controlled film production
-They sold cheap radios so that everybody could hear Hilter
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
There were 24 defendants and they represented cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership
Following Orders
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Ghettos Ghettos Overcrowded and small Confining, restricting, and dehumanizing Like a busy bee hive and as hot as the sun A holding cell for the innocent Isolating In the blistering sun in the face of death
Table of Contents
Macie S. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie’s Reasons
Elie Wiesel has many reasons for writing his memoir Night. One of the reasons is to leave behind a legacy of words and memories so he can help prevent things like the Holocaust from happening again. He wants to educate the world so they can try to do things to prevent history from repeating itself. Another reason is because he wants to preserve a record of the ordeal he endured as a fifteen year old. He wants to tell people about what he experienced first hand and what is was like for him to do it at such a young age. He knows that he must bear a witness to what he saw because there are not many people left who can and in very little time there will be nobody who can tell these stories because they will have all passed away. He tells stories about how he watched the Nazis kill his father and how he did not obey his father’s last wish that was for his to be at his side. It was very hard for him to make the abridged version because he did not want to cut out any or the story because he thought it is all equally important. One thing he believes is that there is a response in responsibility. In conclusion there are many reasons for why Elie Wiesel wrote the novel Night and most of them include telling people about what happened and trying to prevent it from happening again.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
-Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce
-Nazis controlled film production
-They sold cheap radios so that everybody could hear Hilter
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
15 High-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials and talked about the final solution of the Jewish Question
The final solution was the code name for the systematic deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
-Roma (Gypsies), disabled, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals
They would go to the camps or just be killed depending on their strength, sex, and age
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
Closed-surrounded by walls
Open-had no walls or fences
Destruction-tightly sealed off and existed for between 2-6 weeks before they were destroyed
Miserable conditions, they isolated Jews, and they separated them from other races
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
Death Camps- they just killed them immediately
The conditions were small barracks, dark, crowded, dirty and strict
They killed them by poison gas or by shooting
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Committed suicide
There were 24 defendants and they represented cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership
Following Orders
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Ghettos
Ghettos
Overcrowded and small
Confining, restricting, and dehumanizing
Like a busy bee hive and as hot as the sun
A holding cell for the innocent
Isolating
In the blistering sun in the face of death